Rint

"Now wait a minute," Rint said gruffly, grabbing hold of reality as a drowning man grabs a piece of wood.

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I believe that the latter is the case, for Rint was clearly greatly troubled in later life, and perhaps the bone sculpture still rests in Sedlec.

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After ten minutes went by, I tried the Rint bell again, and the same voice answered.

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The name on the bell was Rint, just like that of the man responsible for the reconstruction of the Sedlec ossuary in the nineteenth century.

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Once again, it was made entirely from bone: Rint had even constructed a bird, a raven or a rook, using a pelvic bone for its body and a section of rib for its wing.

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A woodcarver named František Rint was brought in, and his imagination was allowed free rein.

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From the remains of forty thousand people, Rint created a monument to death.

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But if Bosworth was right, then Rint had seen something while he was completing the reconstruction of the ossuary, and what he had seen had haunted him to such a degree that he had spent years re-creating its image, as though by doing so he might slowly begin to exorcise it from his imagination, and bring himself peace at last.

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Later, others copied them, and they became popular among specialized collectors with an interest in the myth, but Rint made the originals.

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No, Rint saw the original, the Black Angel rendered in silver.

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